Penile Implant

As a new nurse you're inquisitive: always wanting to figuratively get your hands on everything...well almost everything, there are some exceptions.

The thing is when you're a student nurse you're at the expense of the nurse you're assigned to and they dictate how much they want you around. Since I'm most likely older than the nurse I was assigned too, I simply use that to my advantage and I'm more blunt, "let me see and do everything...please!" Because standing around on the floor... simply sucks!

Now when I made the statement, "let me see and do everything" I was not expecting to come across what I did on Friday. The nurse was teaching me about condom Foley's and how to take them on and off. When we came across a hardened spot on this patients scrotum. As we were poking around (a.k.a. assessing) we felt something that kept "clicking". We both had no clue as to what this could be and so we got the head nurse to come take a look.

It turned out that we were turning on and off this patients penile implant. Luckily for us and probably for the patient himself we weren't able to activate the implant!

phew...

One of my friends asked me, "what would you do if you did turn it on? would you have to help relieve him?" Thankfully I didn't have to answer that question, at least not that day...